in the Octavian Portico he is reckon'd by Ovid among the Comedians 18. Caius Asinius Gallus the Son of Asinius Pollio he is reckoned among the Poets by Giraldus from the commendation of Pliny and Tranquillus cites an Epigram of his against Pomponius Marcellus Besides these there were several others as Tuâ—anius a Tragic Poet Lupulus Siculus a Comedian and Actor of his own Co-and also of an â—legy upon the death of Mecaenas 9. Aulus Sabinus another of the same order remembred several times by the said Ovid and said to be the Authour of some of those Epistles which are ascribed to Ovid as of Paris to Helena and four or five others he left some things unfinisht as appears from l. 4. Eleg. 16. of the Pontics 10. Titus Septimius a Lyric and Tragic Poet mentioned by Horace in his Epistles 11. Aulus Cornelius Severus the Authour of a Poem Entitled Aetna which hath been heretofore attributed to Virgil also certain Verses are cited by Marcus Seneca concerning the death of Cieero as is suppos'd out of a Poem of the Sicilian War which by Fabius the Historian he is delivered to have written to him belongs one Elegie in the fourth Book of Ovids Pontics 12. Domitius Marsus the Authour of a Poem Entitled Amazonis mentioned by Martial in one of his Epigrams he makes one in Ovids Catalogue and is also taken notice of by Petronius Arbiter There is extant of his an Epigram against Tibullus 13. Fannius medies Carus Numa Marius whether the famous Rhetorâ—cian of that name and time is uncertain the two Priscus's Proculus an imitator of Callimachus Fontanus Capella Cajus Cotta Julius Montanus Camerinus and Thuscus Aemilius Macer of Verona with others already mentioned all celebrated by Ovid with an account for the most part of the subject of their Poems only Marcus Manilius or Manlius whose Astronomical Poem we have yet extant of all the Poets that we hear of of that time for to think as Guevartius that he was the same with Manlius Theodorus in the time of Theodocius the elder his dedicating his Poem to Augustus renders it absurd is omitted by him Publius Porcius the Authour of a Poem Entitled de pugna poreorum of which every Verse begins with the letter P. Publius Statius Papinius see Staâ—ius Publius Syrus a Mimic writer who after the death of Decius Laberius kept up the reputation of the Scene at Rome Publius Volumnius a Latin Poet out of whom several Verses are cited by Plutarch in his life of Marcus Brutus Publius Terentius Afer see Statius Câ—cilius Publius Virgilius Maro the Prince of Latin Heroic Poets his Aeneis however not uncensured by some being equalled by none of the ancient Latins that are extant and so particularly esteemed by Augustus Caesar that after Virgils death who had left in charge with some friends to have that Poem burnt he committed it to the custody and strict care of Lucius Varius and Plotius Tucca with command that nothing should be altered He was the Son of Maro a mean person some say a Potter and Maia whose dream of her bringing forth a Laurel branch boaded very significantly born in the 177 th Olympiad in the Ides of October at Andes a Village not far from Mantua whence he is stiled the Mantuan Swan also see Publius Ovidius Pythagoras a Samian one of the most fam'd of ancient Greec pâ—ilosophers and the reputed Authour of those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or golden Verses which are commonly publisht under his name in the common Edition of the poetae minoâ—es though by some ascribed to Philolaus Pythangelus a Tragic Poet and Grammarian not less notorious for his lewdness than for his poetry Pythostratus an Athenian who is said to have written a Poem Entitled Theseis he is remembred by Laertius in the life of Xenophon together with a Brother named also Xenophon Q QVintus Cicero see Decius Laberius Quintus Cornificius an old Latin Epigrammatist contemporary with Salust having a command in the Wars he was slain by his Souldiers for calling them Helmetted Hares Quintus Ennius the ancientest of Latin Poets that we hear of next after Livius Andronicus and Cnaeus Naevius he wrote besides his Annals in Verse Satyrs Comedies and Tragedies of all which we have nothing now remaining excepting some few fragments Quintus Fabius Labeo see Statius Cecilius Quintus Horatius Flaccus a most illustrious Lyric Poet of Venusium in Apulia not for the Nobility of his birth for he is reported the son but of a mean person some say a Salter but for that delicacy of wit purity of style and weight of judgement both in his Lyrics other Writings w ch gain'd him the esteem of the noblest of Favorites Mecaenas and by his means of the greatest Prince upon earth Augustus by whom he was advanced to such a Fortune as being returned back again at his death which was in the Fifty sixth year of his age made Posterity take notice that Horace made Augustus his Heir He is certainly not equalled in that kind of Poetry he undertook to any of the ancient Greecs and Latins that are extant Pindarus himself only and that scarcely too excepted Quintus Hortensius a Noble Roman Oratour if not Poet also as some represent him though we have nothing of his extant Quintus Lutatius Catulus an ancient Latin Epigrammatist of a witty and voluptuous strain sutable to his Conversation very much in favour with Cornelius Cotta and Lucius Crassus Quintus Maecius sometimes simply Maecius subscrib'd to Eight Epigrams in the Greec Anthology Quintus Nonius an old Latin writer of those Comedies calld Attellanae Quintus Rhemnius Palaemon a Contemporary of Claudian He is reported to have been very fluent in making Verses ex tempore for which he is vilified by Martial Some confound him with Rhemnius Fannius but erroniously Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus see Tertullianus Quintus Serenus Sammonicus a sufficiently esteem'd Latin Poet in the time of the Empâ—rour Severus of the many things he is said to have written in Verse we have only something of his left de Medicina He was slain by Antonius Caracalla as saith Spartianus in the life of that Emperour and as Capitolinus affirms left his Son a most noble Library consisting of 62000 Volumes of which he made so good use that he became Preceptor to the Emperour Gordianus juâ—ior Quintus Smyrnaeus see Christodorus Quintus Trabeas the Eighth in place among the ancient Latin Comic writers according to the opinion of Volcatius Sedigitus Quintus Valerius Saranus a very ancient Versifier honoured by Cicero with the Title Doctissimus Togatorum R RAbanus Maurus see Theodulphus Regianus a writer of an uncertain age whose Poem of the waters of Baiae is commended by Brietius both for the ingenuity of the Matter and as written in no bad Verse Rhemnius Fannius an elegant both Grammarian and Poet who flourisht in the time of Constantine the Great he was the Disciple of Arâ—obius and so was Lactantius Firmianus who had the
Epinausimache Aceratus an ancient Grammarian and Epigrammatist who hath a name in the Greek Anthologie Achaeus the Son of Pythodorus and Pythoris he flourish't from the Seventy fourth to the Eighty second Olympiad wrote very many comoedies whereof two are remembred by Athenaeus viz. his Cycnus and his Maerae Addaeus of Mitilene and Addaeus of Macedon both cited in the Greec Anthologie Admetus a foolish Poet in the time of the Emperours Trajan and Adrian the Epigram he orderd to be inscrib'd upon his Tomb is derided by Demonaâ—c in Lucian Adrianus a Roman Emperour under whose name there is a witty Epigram in the Greec Anthologie besides several Anacreontics and Iambies in Latin mention'd by Spartianus Aeantides one of the Seven Greec Poets the other Six being Homerus Junior the Son of Myro a Poetess of Byzantium Sositheus Lycophron Alexander Philiscus and Dionysiades who according to the account of the Scholia's of Hephaestion were called the Pleiades though Isacius Tâ—etzes reckons but two of the above mention'd in this famous Septemvirate viz. Lycophron and Homerus junior and makes the rest to be Theocritus Nicander Callimachus Apollonius and Aratus and the Scholiast of Theocritus in stead of Nicander and Callimachus puts in Philiscus and Aeâ—n-a tides Aegidius a Greec Benedictine Monke who flourish't about the year Seven hundred he wrote a book de Pulsibus in verse and another de urinis there is also an Epigram of one Aegidius in the Greec Anthologie Aelius Julius Crottus an ancient writer of Eglogues and also of Iambics Hendecasyllables and other sorts of Lyric verse Aelius Saturninus a Roman who for certain libelling verses against Tiberius was condemn'd to death and thrown down headlong from the Capitol he is reckon'd among the Poets by Lilius Giraldus There flourisht also about the same time Caius Germanicus Caesar the Son of Drusus whom Ovid in his Fasti celebrates for a Poet the Epigram upon the Thracian Boy who had his head cut off by ice is thought to have been his Caius Lutorius Priscus a Roman Knight famous for his Elegie upon Germanicus poyson'd by Piso but put to death by the Senate for writing against Drusus Phaedrus a Thracian who turn'd into Jambic verse certain Fables of Aesop which are mention'd by Avienus in his Praeface to Theod osius Macrobius Marcus Aemilius Scaurus a Tragic Poet who for some expressions in his Atreus which were interpreted by Tiberius as meant of him was driven to lay violent hands on himself Caius Cominius a Roman Knight who notwithstanding his Libelling verses against Tiberius mention'd by Tacitus is scarce allow'd a Poet by Vossius Lucius Fenestella whom Vossius imagines to have been a Historian mistaken for a Poet and lastly Alphius Avitus whom see in Flavus Aemilianus a Greec Epigrammatist whose name is in the foresaid Anthologie Aemilius Mercer a Latin Poet of Verona whom see in Publius Ovidius he is also mention'd by Servius upon the Fourth book of Virgils Georgics and the first of his Aeneids also by Charisius and others though it is doubted whether that Poem which we have extant under his name de virtutibus Plantarum be really his Aenicus a writer of Tragedies whose Antea is by some ascribed to Pollux Aeschines an Athenian whom Plutarch writing his life among the Ten famous Oratours relates to have been first a Tragic Poet he is also mention'd by Philostratus in the lives of the Sophisters Aeschrion a Poet of Mitylene in high esteem with Aristotle as Nicander in his book de disciplina Aristotelie testifies Aescâ—ylus an Athenian Tragic Poet born in the Village of Eleusis contemporary with Pindarus in the Sixty ninth Olympiad according to the old Scholiast but as Mr. Stanly in his most accurate Edition of this Authour makes out by diligent computation and his Collection out of Mr. Seldens Marmora Arundeliana in the Sixty third The Son of Euphorion and Brother of Cynegyruâ— and Aminias who signaliz'd themselves in the battle of Marathon and the Sea-fight of Salamis in which our Poet also was present of Sixty six Drama's which he wrote being Victor in 13 and Five Satyrs we have extant onely Seven Tragedies his Prometheus Vinctus his Septem contra Thebas Agamemâ—on Persae Eumenides Icetides and Choephorae But though he was Victor 13 times yet it is said he took it so to heart to be vanquisht by Sophocles then a young man that he left his Coâ—ntrey and betook himself to Hiero King of Sicily where he made his Tragedy Aetna so called from the City of that name which Hiero was then building Homonimous to the Mountain others say it was because he was vanquisht by Simonides in his Elegiac verse upon the slain at Marathon after he had been resident at Gela Three years he dyed of a fracture of his skull caus'd by an Eagles letting fall a shell-fish out of his claw upon his bald head which seems to have been portended by the Oracle which being consulted upon the manner of his death answered 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this hapned in the Sixty ninth year of his age according to the above mention'd computation he is mention'd by Horace as the first bringer up of the Tragic pall and of the splendid apparate of Scenes and persons by some of the Tr. Buskin There was also of this name a Poet of Alexandria whose Amphitryo and his Carmina Meseniaca are mention'd by Athenaeus Aeschylus the Tragedian had two Sons Euphorion and Bion who were both Victors by their Poems in the Olympic games Agathias a Smyrnaean who flourisht in the time of the Emperour Justinian and wrote besides his History of Belisarius and Narses a Poem Intituled Dionysiaca and also several Epigrams which are extant in the Greec Anthologie contemporary with whom was Tribonianus Sidetes who wrote in verse a Comment upon Ptolomi'es Canon with some other things mention'd by Suidas Agathon a Tragic Poet who flourisht in the first year of the Ninetieth Olympiad and was Victor by his Lenaei he is mention'd by Athenaeus and Philostratus There liv'd also much about the same time a Comic Poet of the same name who is cited by Aristotle Agathyllus an Arcadian Elegiographer mention'd with praise by Dionysius Halicarnassaeus Agidius Delphus a Greec Poet who flourisht in the primitive time of Christianity and deserves to be remembred for his version of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans into Greec verse Agis Amphiptolemus several verses of his are cited by Pausanias Agis a Poet of Argos whom Curtius brands for a bad Poet and yokes with him one Chaerilus both for time and badness of verses This Chaerilus was in high favour with Alexander the Great and as ill as his verses were for they are very much condemned by Horace l. 11 Epist they were received as the Celebrators of his Acts there were also two others of the same name â—he one a Samian who Elegantly set forth the victory of the Athenians over Xerxes for which he was both highly rewarded and honoured
Pope Gelasius in his Decrees gives a particular commendation This Work being afterwards by himself put into Prose is yet Extant in the Book call'd Bibliotheca Patrum Tomo 8° he wrote besides two Hymns one upon Christs Nativity the other upon Epiphany Caesius Bassus a Lyrick Poet who flourisht in the time of Nero who was also by the testimony of Seneca and Martial a very approved Poet himself and is twice hinted at by Juvena in his Satyrs he is by Fabius who knew him ranked in the next degree of Lyrics to Horace There was also another Caesius in the time of Catullus whom see in Aquinius Cajus Asinius Pollio see Anser and Publius Ovidius Cajus Cilnius Mecaenas ibid. Cajus Cominius see Aelius Saturninus Cajus Cotta see Publius Ovidius Cajus Florus an antient Latin Poet who wrote of the same Subject with Valerius Flaccus in Heroick Verse Cajus Germanicus see Aelius Saturninus Cajus Helvius Cinna the Authour of an old Latin Poem entitled Smirna which as Servius testifies was a Work of no less then ten years Cajus Julius Caesar the Great Roman Captain who first made himself Master of the Roman Empire and was also an Elegant writer besides whose Commentaries which are extant there are reckon'd up several other Works of his writing which are lost and among the rest a Tragedy entitled Oedipus Cajus Laelius see Terentius Cajus Lucilius a Roman Poet of the Equestrian Order Born in the 158 Olympiad Cajus Lutorius Priscus see Aelius Saturninus Cajus Pedo Albinovanus see Publius Ovidius Cajus Rabirius see Anser Cajus Sollius Apollinaris a Sidonian Poet whose Father was an Officer of great Authority under the Emperour Honorius and he himself under Theosius the younger and Valentinian the third thrice Master of the Militia and four times Praefect of the Praetorium he was also in very high Esteem and Authority with Maximus Augustus Avitus whose Daughter he Married and Majorianus by whom he was advanc'd to the Dignity of a Count under Severus he defended Arvernia against the Incursions of the Barbarians Under Anthemius also he was still advanc'd and at length made Bishop of Arverni after which abandoning Poetry he betook himself wholly to the Study of Theologie he is much more happy in his Verse as is to be seen in 24 little Poems of his yet extant than in his Prose wherein his Style is very harsh and crabbed and very much discommended by Ludovicus Vives Cajus Valerius Catullus an Epigrammatist of Verona of whose witty and elegant Poems we have many yet extant Cajus Valerius Flaccus Setinus Balbus a Latin Poet of Padua who Dedicated his Argonauticks or Poem of the Expedition of Jason for the Golden Fleece to the Emperour Domitian which Poem being extant he is said to have written in Imitation of Apollonius Rhodius Calfurnius see Titus Callias an Athenian Tragick Poet of an uncertain age the Son of Lysimachus a Rope-maker his Grammatica is remembred by Athenaeus his Cyclopes by Pollux his Aegyptius Atalanta Pedetae Ranae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by Suidas Callimachus an excellent Greek Poet of Cyrene in great favour and esteem with Ptolomaeus Philadelphus in whose time he liv'd and of his Son Euergetes in honour of whose Queen he wrote his Fiction call'd Coma Berenices he also wrote Hymns Elegies and Epigrams whereof many of his Hymns and Epigrams as also several fragments of his other works are yet extant There was also of the same Name a Colophonian Poet mention'd by Tatianus in his Oration to the Gentiles and Eusebius in his Evangelical preparations Contemporary with Callimachus of Cyrene were Heraclitus of Halicarnassus whose Epigram upon the death of the said Callimachus is cited by Laertius in the Life of Heraclitus And Timon of Phliasus of the Pyrâ—honian Sect who was in great favour with Antigonus Gonatus in whose time he liv'd he wrote Books of Natural Philosophy in Verse Hexameter besides 40 Tragedies 30 Comoedies with Satyrs and several other works among which his Books call'd Sylli are particularly treated of by Sotion There was another Callimachus a Heroick Poet Sister's Son to him of Cyrene as Suidas testifies Callinus an Elegiack Poet somewhat antienter than Archilochus as Athenaeus Clemens Alexandrinus and Strabo testifie Callistratus see Alcaeus Callistus see Amphilochius Calvus an antient Poet out of whom Verses are cited by Servius Charisius and Gellius Camerinus and Thuscus see Publius Ovidius Caninius Rufus a writer of the Dacian War in Greek Verse as Plinius Junior testifies in one of his Epistles Canius see Curiatius Maternus Cantharus a Comick writer of Athens of an uncertain age whose Comedies Medaea Tereus Symmachiae Myrmeces and Aedones are all mention'd by Suidas his Tereus also by Athenaeus Capella see Publius Ovidius Capito an Alexandrian Poet of an uncertain age who besides what he wrote in Prose wrote also a Poem call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or of Love affairs of wich Athenaeus makes mention Capnias an obscure Poet of an uncertain age whose writings are said by Suidas to have been of so little esteem that they vanisht into smoak which alludes to his name their loss not being in the least regarded Carcinus an Athenian Tragick and Lyrick Poet who began to flourish about the 100th Olympiad viz. in the time of Phillip of Macedon and contemporary with Plato who besides his Philosophical writings is said to have written several Tragedies which he afterwards burnt as Laertius testifies The Tragedies of this Carcinus remembred by Athenaeus are his Achilles and his Semele There was also another Carcinus of Agrigentum whose Comedy intituled Plutus is mention'd by Athenaeus he liv'd as appears from Polycritus Mendesius a little before the other Contemporary with whom were Eudoxus of Gnidus who wrote Astrology in Hexameter Verse besides another Eudoxus a Comick Poet of Sicilie as also Anaxilaus or Anaxilas who in a Comedy of his call'd Botrylion nips Plato Two other Comedies of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are cited by Athenaeus Carneades an Elegiack Poet of an uncertain age made mention of by Laertius as a different person from Carneades the Philosopher Suidas mentions three Philosophers but no Poet of that name Carus see Publius Ovidius Cassius Severus see Anser Cato by some call'd Batto a Comick Poet of an uncertain age but the more eminent was Valerius Cato whom see in Valerius Cephisodorus see Euripides Chaeremon see Philistion Choerophon ibid. Charmus a Syracusian of an uncertain age whose Poem intitled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 argued him a person more given to his belly than Epicure himself Chedmon an old Brittish Poet who as it were by divine Inspiration to use Cambden's own words in the year 680 with his sweet Verses full of Compunction drew men from Vice to Vertue Chersias see Epimenedes Chilo ibid. Chionides an Athenian writer of Vetus Comoedia who according to Suidas began to flourish in the 70th Olympiad of his Comedies there are remember'd his Heroes commended by Pollux and Suidas
Chrysopoea or The Art of making Gold in 3 Books which he dedicated to Pope Leo the 10 th another call'd Geronticon in one Book besides 5 Books of Iambics 2 of Sermones and 2 of Odes Joannes Baleus an English writer who flourisht in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth best known by his Treatise which give account of all the Eminent writers of our Nation of what Art or Faculty soever and by what he hath thereby contributed to this work the better meriting to be here inserted to which place the title he derives is by those Dramatic Pieces out of Holy Scripture which we find enumerated among the rest of his works Ioannes Baptista Almadianus a Viterbian of whom there are several Elegies in Latin Verse upon the death of Platina extant at the end of Platina's works Ioannes Baptista Egnatius an Eminent and General Professor of the Liberal Arts at Venice of which Citty he was also a Native the only Monument of whose Poetic Genius we find mentioned among many other of his Volumes is his Panegyric in Heroic Latin Verse upon Francis the first of that Name King of France Ioannes Baptista Pigna another Venetian of whose writings there are 4 Books of Sonnets printed at Venice together with the Sonnets of Celio Calcagnino and Ludovico Ariosto by Vincentio Valgrisio Ioannes Baptista Scaphenatius a Milanese of whose writing something is preserv'd among the Collected works of several Eminent Italian writers of Latin Poetry Ioannes Barclaius a most acute learned and Elegant Scochman and very famous for what he hath writen both in Prose and Verse but especially for his Argenis and his Euphormio both which works though written for the most part in solute Oration yet may very well be accounted Poems not only for that they are intersperst throughout with Verse but also for that they have their Political and Moral truths allegoris'd or coucht under feign'd and invented Story Ioannes Boccatius see Giovanni Boccatio Ioannes Bonfinius a Frenchman of Auvergne whose Basia and other Poems were printed at Leiden an 1656. Ioannes Busmannus a writer of Poems which were printed at Wirtemberg an 1337. Ioannes Carbonirosa an Author of Kirkhoven who among other things wrote certain Dramatic Pieces out of the Holy Scripture Joannes Columbinus the Author of a little Poem entiled Contra Philomusum or against the Contemners of School Divinity Joannes Cotta a native of Ponte Aliaco a Town upon the River Athesis who publisht an Elegant Book of Latin Epigrams but whose Noble Book of Chorographie begun in Verse was not only left unfinisht but also that which was done of it lost together with his learned Scholia upon Plinie Joannes Crato a Silesian born at Vratislaâ—â— the Cheif City of that Country in the year of our Lord 1512 he is styl'd by Boisaâ—dus in his Icones the Hierophantes of all polite Literature and had indeed the general reputation as well of an excellent Poet as of a profound Philosopher and most skilful Physician but for being so great a Philosopher and Physician it was that he remain'd Counsellor and Chief Physician for 26 years to 3 Emperours successively Ferdinand the first Maximilian the second and Rodulphus the second Joannes Dantiscus a Polonian who wrote in Heroic Verse a Poem entitled Soteria to Sigismund de Erberstein a Knight of Poland upon his return from Muscovie another upon the Victory of Sigismund King of Poland against the Waywod of Moldavia also a Sylva in Elegiac Verse upon the calamities of his times He was flourishing in the year 1531. Joannes Elius a writer of Divine Odes mention'd in Hervagius his Catalogue Joannes Fabritius a Native of Berkena in Lower Alsatia who wrote in Verse the History of Gulielmus Thellius which dedicating to Conradus Pellicanus he publisht himself with other Poems of his He flourisht at Zurich in the year 1554. Joannes Filiczkius a Hungarian Poet remembred for what he hath written in Latin Verse among the Chief of that Nation Joannes Franciscus Camaenus a Native of Perusia a Town of Hetruria but under the Pope's Dominion who wrote an Heroic Poem in name at least of the Rape of Philenis which with several other Poems as Eclogues Elegies Epigrams Odes Epicedia c. was printed at Venice by Gulielmo de Fontaneto an 1520. Ioannes Franciscus Mutius an Italian of whom what is extant in Latin Verse is to be found among the selected workes of divers of the principal Latin Poets of that Nation Ioannes Franciscus Picus Mirandula the Nephew of that Miracle of his time Picus Count of Mirandula and as related to him by Blood so also by Ingenuity and perfection of learning both his Books de Veritate Fidei Christianae and also his Sacred Poems are mentioned with high commendation by Paulus Iovius in his Elogies and also by Boissartus in his Icones Ioannes Franciscus Quintianus Stoa an Italian writer of very many Poetical things in Latin Verse besides some in Prose among his first kind are his Threnodies upon the deaths of the K. of France the K. of Scots Queen Anne Philippus Beroaldus c. His Poem of the Amours of Mars and Venus in 8 Books his Cleopolis or Sylva upon the Glory of the City of Paris his Sylva in praise of Marinus Beichemius his Theandrogenosis and Theanastasis the first an Ode upon our Saviours Nativity the second a Sylva upon his Resurrection 7 Tragedies whereof 2 Divine and 5 Comedies Ioannes de Gerson a French Author of a most wonderful multitude of Volumes whereof some in Verse particularly his Epithalamium upon the Mystical Marriage betwen a Divine and the Study of Theology He was Chancellor of the Parisian Academy and is mentioned flourishing in the year of our Lord 1429. Ioannes Fungerus a German who sung in Heroic Verse the Acts of Maurice William Governor of Friseland Ioannes Gigas the Author of a Treatise concerning the Certainty of Christian Religion to which are added his Divine Poems besides which he wrote many things in Poetry as Sylvae Epigrams Elegies and among the rest his Elegy upon the 2 Eclipses of the Moon that hapened in the year 1538. his Funeral Elegy upon John Prince of Saxonie his Encomium upon the City of Leipsich and his Epicedium upon the death of Erasmus Joannes Gilleius a Burgundian who among other things wrote an Elegant Description of the Stately House and Gardens of Pagnâ—l belonging to the Gileian Family and of the City of Salines and the River Furiosa flowing by it together with the Famous Wilderness belonging to the Sieur Du Sachet Joannes Girardus the Author of a Poem entitled Divionensis Stichostratia with two Centuries of Epigrams Joannes Grasserus the Author of certain Latin Poems which were printed at Colen an 1595. Joannes Hasembergius a Bohemian no less mention'd for his Drolling Verses upon Martin Luther then for his being Tutor to the Emperor Ferdinand's Children Joannes Honterus an Eminent Geographer of Cronstadt in Transilvania who among divers Geographical Treatises wrote one in Hexameter
Warbec S r John Gowr a very Famous English Poet in his time and counted little inferiour if not equal to Chaucer himself who was his Contemporary and some say his Scholar and Successor in the Laurel For Gowr was also both Poet Laureat and Knight His Cheif Works may be gather'd from his Tomb in St. Mary Overeis Church where lying buried he is represented with his head upon three large Volumes thus inscribed the first Votum Meditantis the next Confessio Amantis the 3 d Vox clamantis of which last being printed in the Reign of King Henry the 8 th the Impression is not yet totally extinguisht the other two doubtless if not printed are preserved in Public Libraries For his Confessio Amantis I have seen in a private Library in a large Folio Manuscript of Vellam fair written containing the whole circuit of Natural Philosophy and the allegories of all the Poeticall Fictions but that there were other things of his writing appears by what is extant of him in Chaucers publisht Works Iohn Hall a Poetical writer who never having had any great Fame that ever I heard of no wonder if now totally forgotten especially since his Poem entitled The Court of Vertue was publisht no less while ago then the year 1565. Of the same name also flourisht within these 30 years a Bishopric of Durham Man who besides his juvenile Poems memorable only for their airy and youthful wit improv'd afterwards to a more substantial reputation for what he has wrote as well in Verse as Profe but a Poem he began of great and general expectation among his Friends had he liv'd to compleat it would doubtless have very much advanc't and compleated his Fame Iohn Harding a writer recorded in History for one of the Chief of his time viz. the Reign of K. Edward the 4 th and claiming his Seat among the Poetical Writers by his Chronicle in English Verse Iohn Hauvise a Monk of St. Albans whom living about the Reign of K. Richard the first or not long after Camden quoting him in several places of his remains reckons among the Chief of English Latin Poets of that Age. Iohn Hoddesdon one of the last Age who with his Sion and Parnassus makes a shift to croud in among many others not of the greatest Fame And so likewise Iohn Kennedie a Scotchman with his History in Verse of Lycanthropos and Lucilla Iohn Lane a fine old Queen Elizabeth Gentleman who was living within my remembrance and whose several Poems had they not had the ill fate to remain unpublisht when much better meriting then many that are in print might possibly have gain'd him a name not much inferiour if not equal to Drayton and others of the next rank to Spencer but they are all to be produc't in Manuscript namely his Poetical Vision his Alarm to the Poets his Twelve Months his Guy of Warwic a Heroic Poem at least as much as many others that are so Entitled and lastly his Supplement to Chaucers Squires Tale. Iohn Leland an Antiquary of London who Flourisht in the year 1546 and wrote among many other Volumes several Books of Epigrams his Cignea Cantio a Genethliae of Prince Edward Naeniae upon the death of S r Thomas Wiat and several other things in Verse Iohn Lilly a Writer of several old fashion'd Comedies and Tragedies which have been printed together in a Volume and might perhaps when time was be in very good request namely Endymion The Woman in the Moon Midas Mother Boniby Galatea Sapho Phao Comedies a Warning for Fair Wâ—men â—â—hn Lydgate an Augustin Monk of St. Edmunds-Bury who had the reputation of a person much accomplisht by his travels into Italy and France and besides several things of his of polite Argument in Prose was much esteem'd for what he wrote also in Verse as his Eglogues Odes Satyres and other Poems Iohn Marston a Tragic and Comic Writer not of the meanest Ranck among our English Dramatics His Comedies are the Dutch Curtisan the Fawn What you will His Tragedies Antonio and Melida the Insatiate Countess besides the Malecontent a Tragy Comedy the Faithful Sheapheard a Pastoral Iohn Milton the Author not to mention his other Works both in Latin and English both in strict and solute Oration by which his Fame is sufficiently known to all the Learned of Europe of two Heroic Poems and a Tragedy namely Paradice lost Paradice Regain'd and Sampson Agonista in which how far he hath reviv'd the Majesty and true Decornm of Heroic Poesy and Tragedy it will better become a person less related then my self to deliver his judgement John Ogilby one of the prodigies of our Age for producing from so late an initiation into Literature so many large learned Vol. as well in verse as Prose in Prose his Volumes of the Atlas and other Geographical Works which have gain'd him the Style and Office of his Majestie 's Cosmographer in Verse his Translat of Homer Virgil which is the chief of all as Compos'd propria Minerva his Paraphrase upon Aesop's Fables which for Ingenuity Fancy besides the Invention of new Fables is generally confess 't to have exceeded what ever hath been done before in that kind John Philips the Maternal Nephew and Disciple of an Author of most deserved Fame late deceas't being the exactest of Heroic Poets if the truth were well examin'd and it is the opinion of many both Learned and Judicious persons either of the Ancients or Moderns either of our own or what ever Nation else from whose Education as he hath receiv'd a judicious command of style both in Prose and Verse so from his own natural Ingenuity he hath his Vein of Burlesque and facetious Poetry which produc't the Satyr against Hypocrites and the Travested Metaphrase of two Books of Virgil besides what is dispeirc't among other things nevertheless what he hath writ in a serious Vein of Poetry whereof very little hath yet been made public is in my opinion nothing inferior to what he hath done in the other kind John Skelton a jolly English Rimer and I warrant ye accounted a notable Poet as Poetry went in those daies namely King Edward the fourth's Reign when doubtless good Poets were scarce for however he had the good fortune to be chosen Poet Laureat methinks he hath a miserable loos rambling style and galloping measure of Verse so that no wonder he is so utterly forgotten at this present when so many better Poets of not much later a date are wholly laid aside His chief Works as many as I could collect out of an old printed Book but imperfect are his Philip Sparrow Speak Parrot The death of K. Edward the fourth A Treatise of the Scots Ware the hawk The tunning of Eleanor Rumpkin in many of which following the humour of the ancientest of our modern Poers he takes a Poetical libertie of Satyrically gibing at the vices and corruptions of the Clergy S r Iohn Sucking a witty and elegant Courtier under
works for he was also a great Historian Philosopher and Philologist that which hath obtained the principal fame is his Benaons a Heroic Poem He was arriv'd to his Meridian Altitude in the year 1640. Petrus Bolaneus his Hymns his Panegyric in Sapphic Verse upon the Emperour Frederic the third his Funeral Elegy upon Rudolphus Agricola his Epigram made of the Sentences of Seneca and Plato and some other Poems made his fame known by the year 1494. Petrus Bonommus an Epigrammatic Poet of Triest a Town of Friuli Contemporary with the above mentioned Bolaneus Petrus Christianus a Representer in Latin Vers of the late War between the several Princes States in Europe but more especially relating to what hath happened in the Low Countries Petrus Crinitus the Author of a Treatise in 5 Books of the Latin Poets in which there are contain'd several Fragments of Ancients Poets whose compleat works are lost besides which Treatise in Prose he hath extant two Books of Odes with other Poems he surviv'd the year 1505. Petrus Curtius the Author of a Poem concerning the Ancient Falisci Veientes and another entitled Roma he was flourishing an 1526. Petrus Labbaeus a French both judicious Censurer of the Ancient Poets and accounted not the meanest himself of Modern Poets whose Latin Elegies and Epitaphs were printed at Grenoble an 1664. Petrus Lindebergius a German both excellent Historian and Laureated Poet by the testimony of Olaus Wormius in his Literatura Danica and of his own works namely his History of the affaiâ—s of Europe and his extant Poems Petrus Lotichius â—cundus the most excellent of German Poets according to the testimony of Thuanus next after Eobanus Hessus Petrus Molinaeus the Son of that generally Learned French man and famous Champion of the Protestant cause Peter du Moulin himself also not unlearned as appears by his Latin Poems consisting in 3 parts Hymns upon the Apostolic Creed 2 Gemitus Ecclesiae 3 Sylva variorum publisht a few years since at Cambridge with the testimony of D r Gunning now Bishop of Chichester and other Learned Men. Petrus Paganus the Author in Latin Heroic Verse of the History of the Triple Combat between the Horatii Curiatii the 3 Roman and 3 Alban Brethren Petrus Ronsardus a French Poet of Vendosme the most to be esteem'd in the judgement of Thuanus not only of the French but of all other Poets that have liv'd since the time of Augustus Petrus Rossetus a Parisian whose Poem entitled Christus in 2 Books as also his Paulus or the Dâ—scription in Verse of the Apostles Acts were first printed at Paris by Ascentius and Colmaeus afterwards at Basil by Oporinus an 1547. Petrus Scotus a native of Strasburg who wrote Encomiums in Elegiac Verse of St. John Baptist and St. Chrysostome and was flourishing an 1492. Petrus Scriverius a Belgian of Harlem both profound Philologist and Antiquary by the testimony of Boxhornius in his Theatrum Hollandiae by Vossius highly commended for his Comment upon Martial by others quoted among the Chief of that Country for Latin Poesy Petrus Tiara a Frislander of no less account for Latin Poetry among the Belgic Poets for his Poem of the Ancient State of the Friselanders another of Nobility and the true Ensigns thereof Philippus Gundelius a Paduan of whose Poetry there are especially remembred his 2 noted Eglogues Apollonodia and Callianera printed at Vienna 1518. Philippus Lonicerus a German who hath written Icones Liviani in Latin Verse Philip Massinger a sufficiently famous and very copious writer both Comic and Tragic to the English Stage his Comedies are his Bondman Emperour of the East Maid of Honour New-way to pay old debts the Picture the Bashful Lover the Renegadâ— the Guardian the Great Duke of Florence his Tragedies the Fatal Dowry the Duke of Millain Philippus Rubenius a Kinsman of the most admired Painter Petrus Paulus Rubens upon whom he wrote Elegies but of chiefest note are his Apobaterion and Eucharistic to Justus Lipsius and his Lachrymae upon his death Sr Philip Sidny the Glory of the English Nation in his time and Pattern of true Nobility as equally addicted both to Arts and Arms though more fortunate in the first for accompanying his Uncle the Earl of Leicester sent by Queen Elizabeth General of the English Forces into the Low Countries he was there unfortunately slain He was the great English Mecaenas of Vertue Learning and Ingenuity though in his own Writings chiefly if not wholy Poetical his Arcadia being a Poem in design though for the most part in solute Oration and his Astrophil and Stella with other things in Verse having if I mistake not a greater Spirit of Poetry then to be altogether disesteem'd Philippus Porta the next in the esteem of Thuanus after Bellaqua for excellency in French Poesy though no native himself that is the fourth after Ronsard Phineas Fletcher the Brother of George before mentioned whom he rather exceeds then comes behind in Poetic fame for his Purple Island is yet memory and mentioned by many with sufficient commendation besides which he wrote a Poem in Latin against the Jesuites but more enlarged in English Pierre Le Moine late French Writer of a Heroic Poem entitled St. Louis Pierius Valarianus a Belluuensium Writer of a Latin Poem of the culture of Smilax or Ridnybean Pompeo Torelli his Italian Poem Vittoria was printed at Parma an 1605. Pompeius Hugonius wrote a Latin Poem of the Victory of Lepanto which is publisht with the selected works of several other Italian writers in Latin Poesy Porcellius a Neapolitan who for his acute Wit and rather quick and ready then sublime vein in Poetry was in high favour with Frederik Duke of Vrbin Publius Faustus Andrelins a Poet of Forli a principal Town of Romania the chief of whose Poems are his Elegies upon the two Neapolitan Victories and the Captivity of Ludovico Sforza his 4 Eclogues and his Book of Distichs Publius Franciscus Amerinus his Funeral Poems upon Baptista Platina are printed with those of other Learned Men at the end of Platina's works Q. QVintius Aemilianus a Cimbrian or Dane who wrote an Elegant Poem in praise of Love in opposition to Petrus Hedaeus his Anterotica also an Epicedium to the Emperor Frideric the third Quintus Septimius Florens Christianus a Frenchman so great a Master of the Latin and Greec tongues that for what he wrote in either of them whither in Prose or Verse he stands comparable in the opinion of Thuanus to most of the Ancients besides what he wrote in both style in his Mother-Tongue he is recorded Flourishing an 1586. R. Sr Ralph Freeman the Author of a Tragedy which by some is held in great esteem Entitled Imperiale Raphael Thorius a learned French Poet whose elegant style in Latin Vers discovers it self in his noted Poem entitled Hymnus Tabaci or Encomium of Tobacco Reinhardus Lorichius Hadamarius a German writer of many elaborate works among which not least to be regarded
and Friendship and the Costly Whore Robertus Obricius a writer of Latin Hymns D r Robert Wild one of the Poetical Cassock and not of the meanest rank being in some sort a kind of Anti-Cleaveland in regard he stands up in behalf of the Presbyterians as notably as ever Cleaveland did against them the first thing that recommended him to public Fame was his Iter Boreale the same in Title though not in Argument with that little but much commended Poem of Dr Corbet's before mention'd this being upon Monk's Journy iuto Scotland in order to His Majesty's Restoration and lookt upon for a lofty and conceitful style his other things are for the most part of a lepid and facetious nature Rochus a Chartreux Monk mentioned in History among other Eminent Men of K. Edw. the Fourth's time Sr De Roquigni the Author of a late French Poem entitled Muse Chrestienne Rodulphus Agricola a most Famous writer of Groeningen in Friseland who among many other works wrote also Epitaphs and other Poems There were moreover two others of the same name both Poets the first Rodolphus Agricola junior a Poet Laureat the other of Wassenburg Rodolphus Avincatius his Poems dedicated to the Farnesi were printed at Rome an 1543. Rodolphus Avantius an Italian writer of Odes or Sonnets Rodolphus Gualtherus a Native of Zurich in Switzerland and Pastor of the Church of Zurich In Prose he wrote very many things in Heroic verse The Monomachie or Single Combat between David and Goliah with the Allegorical Exposition thereof Rodolphus Langius a German writer Prebend of Munster who wrote a Poem of the 3 Magi or Wisemen another of the Siege of Nuis to the Dean of Colen besides others of various subjects Roger Ascham a Man of that Eminence for learning that he was thought worthy to be chosen Preceptor to that most Glorious Princess Queen Elizabeth and though principally fam'd for his Latin Epistles and other things in Prose yet mentioned with commendation by Balaeus for Epigrams and other Latin Poems Roger Boile Lord Broghil and Earl of Orery the Credit of the Irish Nobility for wit and ingenuous parts and a smooth stile both in Prose and Verse in which last he hath written several Dramatic Histories as Mustapha Edw. the Third Henry the Fifth Tryphon and that with good success applause for the way he writes in namely the continual Riming and love and honour way of the French M r Rostrou a French Tragedian censured by Renatus Rapinus in his Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poetry Ruccelaio an Italian Poet who wrote in Blank Verse of the Culture of Bees S. Mr Sabliquy his Muse Dauphine publisht an 1661. Salmonius Macrinus an Ingenious Poet of Laudun sufficiently known by his 6 Books of Odes in which he made it his study to imitate Horace both in the Argument and manner of Verse but especially Famous for his Lyric Poem entitled Gelonide which he wrote when weary of a single he betook himself to a Married Life Samuel Daniel an Author of good note and reputation in King James his Reign whose History of the 11 first Kings of England from the Norman Conquest though it be of all the rest of his Works most principally sought after and regarded yet are not his Poetical writings totally forgotten as namely his Historical Poem of the Civil Wars between the House of York and Lancaster his Letter of Octavia to Antoninus his Complaint of Rosamund his Panegyric c. and of Dramatic pieces his Tragedy of Philotas and Cleopatra Hymen's Triumph and the Queens Arcadia a Pastoral Samuel Purchas see William Slatyer Samuel Rowly remember'd by his Comical History When you see me you know me and his Tragedy The Noble Spanish Souldier Samuel Woodford a late commended Translator if not rather Paraphrast of David's Psalms in the Pindaric vulgarly so call'd and other various sorts of Verse Scoevola Samarthanus a Learned Frenchman who wrote in Latin Verse Elogies upon all the Eminent Men of France to his time for Learning and Arts. Scipio Capycius the Author of two learned Poems viz. De Vate Maximo and De Principiis rerum M r De Scudery Governour of Nostre-Dome the most Voluminous and of the most Famous of late French Romancers or rather Adulterators of true History with Romantic entreagues of Love yet to say truth in a style and conduct much more gentile and polite then any of the old Romances could boast not without a pretty representing of the heighth of the French Galantry conversation this way of writing will easily be allow'd to be a sort of Poetry but there are besides not very long since publisht his Poesies diverses Sebastianus Aerichalcus a Polonian who describ'd in Heroic Verse the Affections of the Mind out of Philip Melanchton's Book De Anima as also the Solar Eclipse of the year 1546. Sebastianus Castalio the fam'd Author of many learned Works both in Prose and Verse among those in Prose the most known are his Sacred Dialogues as being frequently taught in Grammar Schools His chief things in Poetry are his Eclogue Sirillus upon our Saviour's Nativity his History of the Prophet Jonas in Latin Heroic Verse his Life of St. John Baptist in Heroic Greec Verse his Version of 40 of David's Psalms and of two of Moses's Songs He was Flourishing at Basil about the year 1540. Sebastianus Titio alias Brant an Eminent Jurisconsult of Strasburgh Professour both of Civil and Canon Law but his Writings which were very many were of various subjects and several of them in Verse as his Rosary of the B. Virgin in Sapphics his Elegy upon the death of the Emperour Frederic a Book of Epigrams Divine Satyrs both in Latin and Vernacular Verse the Encomiums of several Saints an Epithalamium upon the Marriage of King Maximilian with Blanca Maria M r Segrais his Poesies printed at Paris anno 1661. Sethus Calvisius a German most learned Historian Poet and Musician whose Opus Chronologicum and other Works have their deserv'd same He died at Leipsich in the 60 th year of his age an 1615. Shakerly Marmion a not obscure or uncopious Writer of English Comedy having sufficiently testified his success therein in his Antiquary his Holland Leaguer his Fleir Fine Companion Fair Maid of the Exchange Sigismundus Fulginas Secretary of the Apostolic Chamber one of the Authors of those Eminent Funeral Poems upon Platina which in honour of that Learned Writer are printed at the end of his works Simon Fagellus Villaticus a Bohemian whose Poetical Works are his Hymns Epigrams Funeral Epitaphs Distichs c. Simon Lemnius a German who besides his Translations of Dionysius Aser and Homer's Odysses into Latin Verse hath left from the product of his own Genius Episodes upon Joachimus Marquese of Brandenburgh and his Lady 5 Bucolic Eglogues and 4 Books of Ethics in Verse He died at Chur in Switzerland of the Pestilence anno 1550. Simon Ogerius a Writer of Silvae and other Latin Poems
Poems both in Hexameter and other sort of verse are yet extant he is remembred by Hieronimus whose Master he was Amphis an Athenian Comic Poet the Son of Amphicrates he was as saith Laertius contemporary with Plato who was sometimes the Subject of his comical wit Anachaâ—sis a Scythian mention'd among the Philosophers he was Brother to a Scythian King and liv'd in the time of Craesus King of Lydia his Mother being a Graecian Woman he wrote the Scythian Laws in verse besides a Poem of the frailty of humane life consisting of Eight hundred verses Anacreon a Lyric Poet of Teos several of whose Poems are yet extant he flourisht in the 61 and 62 Olympiad as Eusebius and Suidas affirm and as Pausanias in his Attics and Strabo testifie was in high favour with Polycrates the Tyrant of Samos whom he often celebrates in his verses Ananius an Jambic writer of an uncertain age mention'd by Athenaeus in his Dipuosophists and Isaacius upon Lyeophron Anaxandrides a Comic Poet of Rhodes or as some say Colophon who flourisht in the Second year of the One hundred and first Olympiad as Suidas and the Authour of the Olympiads testifie he is cited by Aristotle in his Rhetorics and Ethics of the Sixty five Comedies he wrote in Ten whereof he is said to have been Victor his Odysseus is chieflly commended by Athenaeus in the same Olympiad appear'd also Eubulus Cettius a writer as saith Suidas of between the Media and Nova Comedia he wrote Twenty four Comedies whereof his Nutrices Clepsydra and Cercopes are cited by Athenaeus and his Calatophori by Ammonius then also flourisht Mnesimachus a Writer of Media Comedia his Hippotrophus Bustris and Philippus are cited by Athenaeus this Authour is very much commended by Diogenes Laâ—rtius in his life of Socrates Anaxiles see Plato Anaxipolis of Thasus see in Antipater Anaxippus see in Menander Anitius Manlius Boethius Severiâ—us a most learned and Elegant writer in the time of Zeno and Anastatius he together with his Wife Helpis to omit all other parts of Learning was particularly Eminent in poetrie as his Five books de Consolatione Philosophiae testifie he was put to death together with Symmachus by Theodoric King of the Goths in Italie Aunaâ—us Cornutus a Tragic poet whose works are totally lost who liv'd in the time of Claudius and Nero and was the Master of Persius the Satyrist Aunianus an ingenuous and learned Poet mention'd by Agellius or Aulus Gellius as he is generally call'd he flourisht in the times of the Emperours Trajan and Adrian his Fescennine verses are mention'd by Ausonius in his Thirteenth Idyl at the end of the Cento Nuptialis Anser Bavius and Maevius three ill Poets contemporaries of Virgil by whom the two last are mention'd about the same time also flourisht Publius Syrus a Comic writer Corniâ—icius one of Virgils detractors Caiâ—s Asinius Pollio Alfenus Varius a more famous Juris Consult than Poet Cornelius Gallus Cassius Severus one of Caesars Assassinats and as some think the Authour of that Tragedie of Thyestes which is ascribed to Quintus Varus also Gracchus Codrus whom Virgil mentions with praise in his Seventh Eglogue there being another of the same name in Domitians time whose Theseis is derided by Juvenal Caius Rabirius who wrote in verse the War between M. Antonius and Octavius in an inflate style for which he is taken notice of by Ovid Lucius Julius Calidius mention'd with singular praise by Pomponius Atticus to which purpose a passage of the said Atticus is cited by Cornelius Nepos in his life Antagoras of Rhodes see in Menander Anthippus a Comic Poet of an uncertain age Antigrammaratus a Poet mention'd by Lilius Giraldus to have liv'd since Charles the Great though in what particular age is uncertain as likewise several others which are likewise mention'd by him as Decianus of Emerita a poet and philosopher Dracontius who wrote a poem call'd Hexaemeron or the Six dayes work Facetus and Joannes Nantuillensis an Englishman who wrote a poem call'd Archithenium though in a rude and disorderly style Floretus Gamphredus and Pamphilus a writer of Elegies Antilochus a favourite to Lysander the Lacedaemonian whom he celebrated in his verses and was rewarded with a Cap full of Silver he flourisht in the Ninety fourth Olympiad in the first year of which the said Lysander took Athens contemporary with whom was Morsimus the Son of Philocles and the Sister of Aeschylus he wrote a Tragedie which is mention'd with derision by Aristophanes also Critias one of the Thirty Tyrants of Athens impos'd by Lysander chiefly noted for his Elegie to Alcibiades and his fragment of Jambic verses extant in Sextus the Philosopher Athenaeus mentions a Poet of the same name the Son of Callaeschrus but thought to be not the same Antimachus a Colophonian Poet mention'd by Pausanios and Plutarch the subject of his Poem was the expedition of the Argives against the Thebans Antipater of Sidon a Poet and Historian who appear'd in the 179 Olympiad Ptolomaeus Lathyrus then Reigning he is taken notice of by Cicero in his books de Oratore in the Reign of the said Lathyrus liv'd also Anaxipolis of Thasus and Dionysius sirnamed Scytobrachion whom Suidas will have to be of Mitylene though others say of Miletus and that he wrote the expedition of Bacchus and Minerva and six books of Argonauts besides Antipater of Sidon there was also another of the same name of Thessalonica who liv'd in the Reign of Augustus of which time he and Bathyllus were the chief Pantomimi as is testified by Dion Zâ—simus Suidas and others in the Greec Authologie are several Epigrams both of his and the other Antipater Antiphanes Caristius a writer of Media Comedia who flourisht in the first year of the Hundred and fourth Olympiad very many of his Comedies are mention'd by Julius Pollux and Athenaeus and by this last his saying to Alexander the Great about one of his plays which was recited to the said Alexander Antipho the Rhamnusian see Dionysius Antistius Sosianus see Euodus Aphareus see Isocrates Apollinaris a Bishop of Laodicea in Syria in the Reigns of Julian Valentinian and Valens and the beginning of Theodosius the Great besides his devine poems among which some reckon Christus patiens which is generally ascrib'd to Gregory of Nazianzene he is highly eminent among the ancient Ecclesiastick writers treated of by Hieronimus for his 30 books against Porphirius for which Philostorgius prefers him before Eusebius and Methodius with other things both in Theologie History and Poetrie Particularly we have extant his Metaphrase upon David's Psalms in Greek verse besides which he is said by Suidas to have turn'd the whole book of the Hebrews into Greek verse for a more particular commendation and Character of him see Joannes Sarisburiensis de Nugis Curialium Vincentius Lirinensis in his Commonitorie Theophilus of Alexandria l. 1. paschali and Vossius l. 2. de Historicis Graecis There was another Apollinaris celebrated by
Sabaeus a Brescian of whose Latin Poetry there is sufficient Extant to place him among the chief Italian writers of that kind Felix Fidlerus a German Poet whose most particularly mentioned Poems are his Eclogue Entitled Philotas dedicated to the Bishop of Arras and his Elegy upon the death of Cardinal Perenot Granvile Florentius Schonhovius a Belgic writer Native of Gouda of whom there is Extant a Poem Entitled Lalage or Amores Pastorales with the selected Works of several other noted Latin Poets of that Countrey in which Society Antonius Schonhovins is also one Florentius Volusenus one of the association with those other noted Latin Poets of Scotland the choice of whose Poems are Collected together in a long since publish'd Volume Foppius Scheltonus Aesema a Frisian whose Juvenilia are to be found with the selected Works of other Belgic Poets already mention'd Francis Beaumont an inseparable Associate and Coadjutor to Fletcher in the making of many of his Plays besides what he made solely himself there is also Extant a Poem of his Entitled Salmacis and Hermaphroditus a Fable taken out of Ovids Mctamorphoses Francesco Biondi an Italian Poet whose most noted Work is his Erimena Francesco Bracciolini another Italian Poet the most particularly mention'd of whose Works is his Cruce ricuperata or regaining of the Cross. Francesco Contareni a Venetian not of the meanest rank of the Lyric Poets of Italy Don Francesco Manuel a Spaniard whose Obras Metricas or Poetical Works were printed at Leon Anno 1665. Francesco Maria Molza a Poet of Modena reckon'd among the chief of the Lyâ—ics or Sonnet writers of Italy there is also particularly taken notice of his Elegy in the name of Catharine Queen of England to K. Henry the 7 th Francesco Mataracio a Poet of Perusia a Town of that part of Tuscany which is called Lo stato della chiesa and belongs to the Pope his mention'd Poems are Epistles to several Friends and Epigrams but he wrote also in tendency to Poetry Instructions for the making Hexameter and Pentameter Verses Franciscus Niger Bassianus a Learned writer both in Prose and Verse in which last way his most fam'd piece is his Epitome of Ovid Metamorphoses in Phaleusian Verse Francisco Ottavio an Italion Poet known chiefly by his Elegies to Julia and his Epistles Francesco Peto a Poet of Fondi a Town of Campania whose Sylva to Augustinus Niphus is of what he wrote in Verse the most particularly remembred Francisus Franchinus a retainer equally to Mars and the Muses who attending on the Emperour Charles the Fifth in his Algerine Expedition at his return wrote an Elegant description of the said Expedition in Verse Franciscus Modius an Eminent both Civilian and Poet of Bruges in Flanders Franciscus Panigarola one of the Society of those Latin Poets of Italy whose several Works or what is of them choicest are published together Francisco Petrarcha a Florentine Poet Renowned both for Latin and Italian Poesie his Italian Sonnets in Celebration of Laura and his Triumps are in very high Esteem Franciscus Philelphus a Knight of Tollentinum the Author of a Multitude of Volumes whereof very many in Verse particularly his Sfortias his Poem in Commendation of Aenicius Davalus his Odes both Greec and Latin which with the rest of his Poetical Works advanc'd his Fame in Poetry to the title of Poet Laureat he is Recorded to have Flourish'd about the Year of our Lord 1481. Franciscus Pigna a Countrey-man and Associate of the Poet Curtesius Franciscus Portus a Modern Greec Poet chiefly Epigrammatic Francisco Puteolani a Poet of Parma one of the chief setters forth of the Acts of Lodowic Sforza the Famous Souldier of that Age. Francis Quarles the darling of our Plebeian Judgments that is such as have ingenuity enough to delight in Poetry but are not sufficiently instructed to make a right choice and distinction his Emblems being a Copy from Hermannus Hugo's Original his Version of Job into English Verse his Feast of Worms or History of Jonas and other Divine Poems have been ever and still are in wonderful Veneration among the Vulgar and no less his Argalus and Parthenia a History taken out of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia there hath been also Acted a Comedy of his called the Virgin Widow Don Francesco de Quevedo a Spanish writer of signal Fame and Credit both in Prose and Verse of which later kind are his Obras Metricas or Poetical Works which were printed at Brussels Anno 1660. Franciscus Justus Raphelengius Two Belgic writers whose Varia Carmina are with the selected Works of others accounted the chief of that Countrey for Latin Verse Franciscus Sphondratus an Italian whose Latin Poem de Raptu Helenae is Extant among the Collected Works of divers others accounted the prime of Italy for Latin Poesie Francesco Vinta an Itaelian of principal Note among the Pastoral and Comic writers of that Nation Fredericus Dedecindus a German Poet known most especially by his Poem in praise of a Countrey Life and his Epithalamium upon the Marriage of Paulus Gusebelius with Magdalena Moniera of Wirten-berg Fredericus Taubmannus a German chiefly fam'd for a most Learned Commentator and Philologist but not to be wholly left out of the Number of Poets Fridianus Piginutius an Italian who being Oratour and Poet to Eruestus Duke of Saxony wrote in the Latin Idiom Elegies to Conradus Celtes and Martinus Pollichias a Saphic Ode to St. Sebastian to implore an aversion of the Pestilence which were printed with Celtes his Book of the Art of Versifying Sir Fulk Grevil Lord Brook a great Friend and Associate of Sir Philip Sidny whose Life he wrote as also several things in Poetry both Dramatic as his Tragedies of Alaham Mustapha and Marcus Tullius Cicero and others commonly of a Political Subject and among the rest a Posthume Work not publisht till within a very few Years being a Two-fold Treatise the first of Monarchy the second of Religion in all which is observable a close mysterious and sentencious way of writing without much regard to Elegancy of style or smoothness of Verse Le Sieur de Furetiere the Author of certain French Poems printed at Paris Anno 1650. G. GAbriel Cabrera see Ludovicâ— Dolce Gabriel Faernus a very Learned Man and diligent Inquirer into Latin Authors as his setting forth of Terence and some pieces of Cicero testifie Moreover he so ingeniously Paraphras'd upon Esops Fables in divers kinds of Latin Verse that he merits to be rank'd among the Poets he is of that Rank of Eminent Men that in Chronology come under the Year 1561. Gabriel Zinani an Italian whose Extant Sonnets Madrigals c. give him place among the Lyric Poets of that Nation Gallus Chrudimenus a writer in Verse foâ— Elegancy reckon'd of the chief of Modern Latin Poets Gaspar Barlaeus a learned and witty Batavian and of so Eminent a Fame among the Belgic writers of Latin Poesie that Vossius in his Book de Arte Grammatica by doubting
among the chief of the Latin Versisiers of that Nation George Withers a most profuse pourer forth of English Rhime not without great pretence to a Poetical zeal against the Vices of the times in his Motto his Remembrancer and other such like Satyrical Works besides which he turn'd into English Verse the Songs of Moses and other Hymns of the Old Testament in all which and whatever else there is of his disperced up and down for his Works however Voluminous have been scarce thought worthy to be Collected into a Volume whoever shall go about to imitate his lofty style may boldly venture to ride post and Versifie yet because vulgarly taken for a a great Poet and by some for a Prophet in regard many things are fancied to have come to pass which he pretended to predict he must not be omitted but the most of Poetical Fancy which I remember to have found in any of his Writings is in a little piece of pastoral Poetry call'd the Shepheards Hunting Gerardus Bucoldianus a German both Oratour and Poet the chiefly remembred of whose Poems is that of the Muses progress into Germany He Flourish'd at Bonâ—nia in the Year 1535. Germanus Auberâ—us Aurelius one of principal note among the French Poetical writers of Latin Verse Germanus Brixius of Auxerre a Canon of Paris among whose Poetical writings there are principally mention'd his Antimorus or Invective against our Countrey-man Sir Thomas More his Elegy upon the death of Fran is Deloin and his Epigrams upon the death of K. Francis the First of France Germanus Valens Guelius a curious Critic in the Greec Language and not meanly vers'd in all kind of Humane Liâ—erature but according to the Testimony of Thuanus principally addicted to Poetry Giacopo Alegreto a Poet of Forli a Town in Flaminia of whom there is Extant a Bucolic Poem mention'd by Biondi Giacopo Gaddi an Italian who shares in Fame among the Poetical Wriâ—ers of that Nation Giacopo Caâ—â—â—eo an Italian Author of a Poem Entitled Peregrino which was printed Anno 1538. Giacopo Sadoletti a Contemporary Associate and as it were Co-partner with Pietro Bembo not only in agreement of Studies they being both Eminent writers as well in Verse as Prose but also of their Fortunes and Preferment in the World they being both chosen by Pope Leo the 10 th to be his Scretaries together both advanc'd to the Purple by Paul the 3 d uuder whose Reign they both dyed Gilbâ—rtus Ducherius Vulto a Poetical writer of whom what ever he wrote beside there are Extant Five Books of Epigrams and an Eclogue printed by Oporinus at Basil. Giovanni Ambrogio Marini an Italian Poet whose Calâ—andro Fidele was printed at Venice Anno 1664. Giovanni Andrea Rosetti a late Poetical writer among the Italians the Author of a Poem Entitled Mâ—rmono d'Helicona Giovanni Andreini another Italian Author of a Fantastic Poem as he himself calls it Entitled Olivastro which was printed at Bologna Anno 1642. Giovanni Antonio Flaminio see Joannes Antonius Flaminius in regard what he wrote was in Latin Verse Giovanni Battista Marini an Eminent Italian writer who besides his Sonnets wrote an Heroic Poem Entitled Adonis Giovanni Battista di Pesaro another of the same Nation not to be left out of the Number of Italian Poets Giovanni Battista Pigna a noted Italian Lyric Poet whose Four Books of Sonnets were printed at Venice by Vincentius Valgrisius Anno 1553. with those of Calcagnino Ariosto and other Famous Poets of that kind Giovanni Boccaccio de Certaldo a most generally known and Extolled Florentine Writer and worthily rank'd among the Poets not only for his Bucolies but several other writings of a poetical nature as his Genealogia di Dei his Huomini Illustri his Decameron c. besides which he wrote several other things both Historical and Geographical he Flourish'd in the Year 1375. Giovanni della Casa an Italian Lyric Poet whose Rime or Sonnets were printed at Venice Anno 1559. Giovanni Georgio Trissini a Knight and Count of Vicenza of a very Celebrated Fame for what he hath written both in Poetry and Oratory he was Born in the Year 1478. being the Son of Gaspar Trissini by Cecilia Bevilacqua the Daughter of Gulielmo a Gentleman of Verona Girolamo Caso an Italian Lyric Poet or Sonnet writer of Vderza Girolamo Gratiani an Italian Author of a Poem Entitled La Cleopatra which was printed at Venice Anno 1668. Girolamo Preti see Ottavio Rinuccini Girolamo Ronconio a Dramatic writer of Siena but chiefly for Pastorals Giulio Goselani an Italian writer of Rime or Sonnets which were printed at Venice Anno 1588. Mr. Gombâ—ud a French Epigrammatist Gothofredus Torinus a French Poet Eminent among the chief writers of Latin Verse of that Nation Godfry Prior of Winchester an Old English Poet as he is reckon'd by Cambden in his Remains he is indeed a bordeâ—er between the Antients and Moderns for he Flourish'd about the Year 1100. Gnalterus de Castellione a Philosopher Theologist and as his Poem setting forth the Acts of Alexander the Great in Heroic Verse Testifies Poet also of Lisle in Flanders though some ascribe this Work not to Gualterus but Guillermus de Castellione by whom then it is to be suppos'd to have been Dedicated to Gnalterus Guido Cavalcanti see Ottavio Rinuccini Guido First Presbiter then Bishop of Ferrara who wrote in Verse Remarques upon the Old and New Testament which Work he called the Pearl of the Bible and Dedicated it to Pope Clement the 5 th his Fame brake forth about the Year 1310. so that he was Contemporary with Dante and as it were a Frontier Authour between the Ancients and the Moderns Guidus Posthumus Sylvestris a Poet of Pesaro who wrote Two Books of Elegies to Pope Leo. Gulielmus Bigotius de la Valle a French Poet whose Catoptron a Poem containing precepts for the Instruction of Youth is the principal of what is Extant of him Gulielmus Budaeus a most learned Parisian among whose many Treatise in all sorts of Humane Literature his Elegies Epigrams and other things in Poetry are not forgotten Gulielmus Durandus Sirnamed Speculator from his Treatise Entitled Speculum juris a learned French Bishop and one of the most noted Men of his time and he was Flourishing about the Year 1300. for perfection in several Faculties so that he hath from Pasquier in his recherches de la France the Character both of an Excellent Poet solid Divine and exact Lawyer Gulielmus Gnapheus a Poet of Hague whose most noted Poems besides his Comedies the Prodigal Son and Misobarbarus and his Tragecomedy Hypocrisis are his Triumph of Eloquence in various Verse and his Poem of Psyche's Calamity and Restoration Gulielmus Hondius a late German Poet whose Cithara Spiritualis Sex Chordarum was printed at Colen Anno 1637. Gulielmus Modicius an Italian for Latin Poesie reckon'd among the principal of that Nation Gulielmus Salustius Bartasius or du Bartas a French Poet whose Poem of the 6 days work
1494. Iacobus Zevecotius a Hollander esteem'd among the Chief of Belgic writers in Latin Verse and of whose Poems there are particularly quoted by learned Men his Elegies his Tragedy Terris-munda and his Maria Graeca Iames Shirly a just pretender to more then the meanest Place among the English Poets but most especially for Dramatic Poesy in which he hath written both very much and for the most part with that felicity that by some he is accounted little inferiour to Fletcher himself his Comedies are the Ball the Humorous Courtier the Brothers Love in a Maze the Gamester the Grateful Servant the Bird in a cage the Constant Maid the Coronation the Court Secret the Example Hide Park the Lady of pleasure the Opportunity the Wedding the Witty fair one the Royal Master Tragedies the Cardinal the Maids Revenge Chabot Admiral of France the Traitour the Imposture a Tragy-Comedy Arcadia a Pastoral c. Iames Stuart a King of Scotland the first of that Name who being taken prisoner and brought to London where he was educated in all kind of Liberal and accomplishing Arts and Sciences prov'd a great proficient in all and particularly left recorded Memorials behind him of his perfection in Music and Poetry Ianus Antonius Balyfius one of the chief ornaments of his time for polite Learning but most peculiarly eminent for what he hath imparted to the world of his Poetical fancy Ianus Chunradus Rhumelius a writer of Latin Verse with success sufficient to be rankt among the Cheif of modern Latin Poets Ianus Anysius a writer of Satyrs and other Poems which he dedicated to Cardinal Pompeio Colonua Ianus Cornarus a learned German Author of Zwiccaria among whose multitude of other works his Carmen Propempticon to Franciscus a Stiten is not forgotten he is mention'd flou rishing in the year 1551. Janus Douza a Belgic both Poet and Oratour born at Nortwick in Holland of a Noble Family what with his Poems wherein he discovered a most acute wit and sublime fancy and the Annals he wrote of his own Country with no less judgment then learning he obtain'd to be generally styl'd the Varro of Batavia and Common Oracle of the Academy He is recorded flourishing in the year 1604. Janus Lernutius a learned German particularly remember'd among those of that Nation that have a fame in Latin Poetry Jean de Marests a French Author of a Poem entitled Clovis or La France Christienne Janus Pannonius a Poet of Hungary of whose Poems there are extant his Panegyrical Sylva to the Bishop of Funfkirken his Panegyries to Gavariuo of Verona and Giacopo Antonio Marcello of Venice his Proseuâ—htich to Frederik the 3 d for the Peace of Italy besides Epigrams Elegies and other Miscellanies Janus Parrhasius a Calabrian proclam'd by Alstedius the most excellent Poet of his time he was born in the year of our Lord 1470. Joachimus Axonius a Poetical writer among the Latin Versifiers of Belgium or the Low-Countrys Joachimus Bellaius a Kinsman of Cardinal Bellaius in whose Family for he himself was not a Person of any great Fortune he enjoy'd a happy vacancy to his study and Muse to which he was wonderfully addicted his Tristia and his Ludi Rustici are particularly mention'd by Thuanus with commendation Joachimus Camerarius a universally learned and most renowned writer among whose almost innumerable Volumes there are not a few in Verse as particularly his Precepts for Childrens decent behaviour his Description of the Constellations his Prognostics of the weather all in Elegiac Verse also his Epigrams for the Ordering Diet in respect to the alteration of the year Joachimus Myrioianus a German of whose Poetical writings there are extant his Verses against Luther his Elegy upon the death of Empserus his Epicedium to Simon Pistor upon the death of his Wife his Paraphâ—ase in Verse upon the Lords Prayer Ioachimus Mynsingerus Dentatus a Jurisconsult by Profession of Frundeck in Germany but not thereby wholly taken off from his addiction to the Muses by whose instinct he wrote among other things a Poem which by its title Austrias pretends to be Heroic Ioachimus Vadianus a Helvetian both Physician Poet and Orator the chief of whose Poetic works are his Poem in praise of the Emperours Frederic the third and his Son Maximilian his Epiâ—aph of Rodolphus Bishop of Wurtsburg his Eglogue entitled Faustus his Elegy of the Armories and Ensigns of honour given by Sigismund K. of the Romans to the Family of the Vadiani his Elegy describing his combat with Death and his Ode upon the Resurrection he died in the year of our Lord 1551. Ioanâ—es Albinus a German Poet eminent among the writers of Latin Verse of that Nation Ioannes Alexander Brassicanus an industrious publisher of several antient Authors which were before unknown as the workes of Eucherius the Greec Geoponics of Constantine Bishop Salvianus his Book of judgment and Providence and Petronius Arbiter's Satyrs besides what he set forth of the productions of his own fancy which were his Idyliium to Charles King Elect of the Romans Elegies Epigrams Dialogues in Verse and other Poems Ioannes Altus a Poet of Hessen who wrote an Epithalamium to Ioannes Fabricius Montanus and put into Verse Suetonius his History of the 12 Cesars Ioannes Antonius Flaminius a writer of Forum Cornelii a Principal Town of Flaminia who wrote in Latin Verse 2 Books of Sylvae and 3 of Epigrams besides an elegant Paraphrase upon several of Davids Psalms in Prose a Treatise of the several Sects of Philosophers and of the original of Philosophy Ioannes Antonius Hermaphroditus the Author of certain Verses which are extant among other choice Poetical Collections in Albertus de Eyb's Margarita Poetica Joannes Arnolletus the Author of a small triple Poem entitled Faith Hope and Charity which not amounting to a Volume of it self was printed with a Collection of Choice Poems of several Authors by Robert Winter at Basil Joannes Arnoldus a Poet of Bergella who wrote an Encomium upon the Invention of Chalcography in Elegiac Verse Joannes Atrocianus a German Author next after whose Commentaries upon Macer's Book of Planets there is mention'd an Elegy of his upon the Rustic war begun in Germany in the year 1525 he is mention'd flourishing in the year 1528. Joannes Aventinus a writer of several Treatises in Prose especially in Grammar and not altogether a stranger to Verse in which however he is only taken notice of for his Hymn of the Celestial Sphaere Joannes Anratus The Regius Professor of the Greec Tongue at Paris under Charles the 9 th of France and one of the 3 most approved French Poets the other two were Hospitalius and Turnebus whom Vtenhovius in a Latin Distich sets in Competition against 6 Italians namely Sanazarius Fracastorius Flaminius Vidas Navagerius and Bembus Joannes Aurelius Angurellus a Poet of Rimini who being addicted to that kind of Mysterious Philosophy that pretends to the finding out of the Phisopher's Stone wrote a Poem in Heroic Verse entitled
his late Majesty his Poems which being few besides his Dramatics Aglaura Brenoralt the Goblins are collected together with his Letters into a Volume entitled Fragmenta Aurea have a pretty touch of a gentile Spirit and seem to savour more of the Grape then Lamp and still keep up their reputation equal with any Writ so long ago his Plays also still bring audience to the Theater Iohn Webster an Associate with Thomas Decker in several not wholly to be rejected Plays viz. Northward Hoe the Noble Stranger New trick to cheat the Divel Westward Hoe the Weakest goes to the wall Woman will have her Will with Samuel Rowly in the Cure for Cuckolds a Comedy besides what he wrote alone the Divels Law case a Tragy-Comedy the White Devil the Dutches of Malfy Tragedies John Wilson a late Writer with no bad success of two Comedies the Cheats and the Projectors and the Tragedy of Andronicus Commenius Jonas ab Elvervelt an Holsatian who wrote a Description of the State of that Country in Elegiac Verse Josephus Iscanus or Joseph of Exeter the very first of the Moderns both in time and Fame of Latin Poets among the English who accompanying King Richard the first in his Expedition into the Holy Land had the better advantage to celebrate as he did the Acts of that Warlike Prince in a Poem entitled Antiocheis He wrote also 6 Books De Bello Trojano in Heroic Verse which as Cambden well observes appears to be no other then that Version of Dares Phrygius into Latin Verse which hath been generally imputed to Cornelius Nepos have been equal to his undertaking Joshua Sylvester the English Translator of Du Bartas his Poem of the six daies work of Creation by which he is more generally fam'd for that Poem hath ever had many great admirers among us then by his own Poems commonly printed therewith Juan de Mena a Spaniard whose Poetical Works were printed at Antuerp anno 1552. Julius Ascanius a Native of Crenta in the Venetian Territory a tast of whose Poetical Fancy is extant among other the choise collected works of the most noted Italian Writers of Latin Verse Julius Caesar Stella the Author of a Latin Poem of Heroic title Columbeis Justulus an Eminent Author of Spoleto whose writings are chiefly Poetical as his Poem of the Culture of Saffron another of Silk-worms his Epicedium of Pomponius Laeta his Musae Phanestres his Description of the Mountain adjacent to Spoleto his Poem to Ferdinand of Arragon and some others Josephus Justus Julius Caesar two most celebrated Authors Son and Father of the Illustrious Family Della Scala of Verona and therefore generally known by the Sirname of Scaligeri of whom Julius hath the testimony of the Great Thuanus for a Person unparallell'd by any of his Age scarce giving Place to any of the Ancients as Josephus is by the same Historian rankt in the next Place to his Father Julius whose extant Poems both Greec and Latin have gain'd him among Learned Men a particular reputation of an excellent Poet and if in any doubtless in that very respect above all others he is to be preferred before his Son Joseph who though accounted in the number of Poets also yet is much more fam'd for what he hath written in Prose yet as much a Poet as Julius passeth for his judgement of some of the Poets in his Critica might for ought I know if well examined bring in some question whither if he had undertaken those great Provinces in Poetry which require the highest judgement his success would Justus Lipsius one of the most Illustrious Antiquarys Critics and Commentatours of his time in Christendom by the testimony of Thuanus Dilherus and Aubertus Miraeus and though what he hath written in Poetry is not so much taken notice of as his Antiquae Lectiones his Notes upon Tacitus his Saturnalia and other fam'd things in Prose yet to be reckon'd also among the cheif of Belgic Latin Poets for he was born at Brussells for his excellent Genius in Latin Verse he was a constant admirer of Joseph Scaliger and by him no less belov'd He was Flourishing beyond the year 1606. Justus Ricehius a Native of Gaunt who for his Varia Carmina is inserted among the Belgic Writers of Latin Poetry L. LAelius Capilupus a Mantuan who had such an artful and igenious way of making Centones out of his Country-Man Virgil's Verses that by Learned Men he is judged to have excell'd Ausonius and Proba Falconia in that way of writing he is mentioned Flourishing in the year 1560. Laevinus Torrentius see Levinus Lambertus a Benedictine Monk of Liege who besides his Life of Heribertus Arch-Bishop of Coloign wrote a Book of Hymns in various kinds of Verse Lambertus Danaeus a Writer of Geography in Latin Verse Lancinus Curtius wrote decads of Epigrams which were printed at Milan by Rochus Ambrosius de Valle anno 1521. Laurentius Bonicontrius a Commentator upon the Poet Manilius his Astronomica being himself both an Astronomer and Poet his chief Poetic work being his Tractate of things Natural and Celestial in Heroic Verse He was Flourishing an 1494. Laurentius Gambarus a principal Favorite of Cardinal Alexander Farnese and that chiefly for his fine with and gentile Spirit in Poetry Laurentius Niendalius the Author of Latin Poems which were printed at Vtrecht an 1641. Lazarâ— Buonamico an Italian Poet of Basiana Paduan Professour 20 years his most noted things in Poetry are his Epistles in Verse to Vrsinus Velius of Silesia Donatus Rullus of Venice Altenerius Avogarus of Verona and several other Eminent Men of Italy and other parts Within the time of his Professourship is comprehended the year of our Lord 1553 the mentioned time of his Flourishing Leonardo Salviati an Italian Comic writer whose Comedy call'd La Spina being particularly taken notice of was printed at Ferrara an 1592. Leonardus Brunus an Eminent both Philosopher Historian Orator and also Poet of Aretium and thereupon generally known by the Appellation of Leonardus Aretinus Leonardus Pellicanus the Brother of the most learned Conradus and had he liv'd might perhaps have arriv'd somewhat near his perfection if not equall'd him at least in another kind for his Genius was Poetical but he was snatcht away in the flour of his age by an untimely death in the year 1510 at Rubeaqua the place also of his nativity a Town of Upper Alsatia however he left behind him no inconsiderable Fame by his elaborate Elegy upon the death of the Lady Margaret the Wife of Philip Count Palatine and Duke of Bavaria and his Poem upon the Resurrection and Last Judgment besides Epigrams in various kind of Verse Levinus Brechtus a Friar Minorite of Lovain who wrote the Lives of divers Illustrious Martyrs both in Frose and Verse Levinus Torrentinus a Native of Gaunt highly extoll'd by Meibomius for his Learning in general by Sandius for his Notes upon Suetonius and Horace and by Aubertus Miraeus for his Odes
his Government of a Prince the chiefly remember'd of what he writ in Poetry and so much the more famous he is by being remember'd to have been the Disciple of the most fam'd Chaucer W. Sir Walter Raleigh a Person both sufficiently known in History and by his History of the World and seems also by the Character given him by the forementioned Author of the Art of English Poetry to have express't himself more a Poet then the little we have extant of his Poetry seems to import For ditty and Amorous Ode saith he I find Sir Walter Raleigh's Vein most lofty insolent and passionate William Herbert Earl of Pembroke Lord Steward of the Houshold to his late Majesty King Charles the First not only a great favourer of Learned and Ingenious Men but also of a Poetical Genious himself as he discovers by those Amorous not unelegant Airs which having been many years known by the Musical numbers of H. Laws and N. Laneer were publisht under his Name in the year 1660 and that as a great testimony of his Genuine title to them with the both approbation and desire of Caeciliana Counâ—ess Dowager of Devonshire as Doctor Donne takes notice in an Epistle to her before these Poems to many of which also are printed the answers of Sir Benjamin Ruddyer by way of Repartee William Leighton Dedicated to King James a Poetical Peice entitled Vertue Triumphant or Lively Description of the four Vertues Cardinal which came forth an 1603. William Wicherly a Gentleman of the Inner Temple the Author of two witty Comedies Love in a Wood and the Gentleman Dancing Master WOMEN Among THE ANTIENTS Eminent for Poetry A. ANYLE an Epigrammatic Poetess whose name is to 17 Greec Epigrams in Planudes his Florilegium her Verses of Birds are said to be yet extant Aspasia a Noble Milesian Dame said to have been the Mistress that is the Instructress of Pericles the Great Athenian Philosopher and Orator for she was a Person of high and general Repute for her Wisedom and Learning but most particularly recommended to Posterity for what she hath written in Poetry several of her Verses being remember'd by Athenaeus Astyanassa one of the Maids of Honour to that Helena whose Beauty set Troy on fire whom yet surpassing in the theory of active love she impudently committed by writing to the public view and as 't is suppos'd in Verse the Descriptions of more Spintrian pranks and Gambols then perhaps her Mistress ever practis'd or understood and which seem to have been a Pattern of those lew'd inventions which the witty ribauld Aretine in after Ages broch't for the use of the Sons of Priapus nor were there wanting in those times apt Schollars to such a Mistress who prosecuted and enlarged upon the subject she had begun Philenis a strumpet of Leucadia as unchast saith a late Author in her Verses as her life and Elephantis whose Molles Libelli are mentioned by Martial as she herself by Plinie Tatianus Suidas and others Athenais the Daughter of Leontius an Athenian Sophist her self also a Woman of that Wisdom and Ingenuity as well natural as acquired by learning that she was thought worthy to be chosen for a Wife by the greatest Prince of the World the Emperor Theodosius the Second B. Bocho a poor Woman of Delphos who pronouncing the Delphic Oracles must needs be inspired with a Poetic Spirit besides which she is said to have composed divers Hymns C. Carmenta see Nicostrata Cassandra the Daughter of Priamus King of Troy a great Prophetess and as some think and that probably by vertue of the same inspiration Poetess also Charixena a very Learned Grecian Lady who besides what she wrote in Prose is said to have written many things in Verse and particularly a Poem entitled Crumata she is mentioned by Aristophanes Claudia Ruâ—ina a Noble British Lady the Wife of Aulus Rufus Pudens a Bononian Philosopher and of the Roman Equestrian Order he is delivered to have been a great Associate with the Poet Martial whom his advice prevail'd with to alter many of his Verses and who in many places extols this Lady to the skies for her Beauty Learning and transcendent Vertues of her Poetic writings there are remember'd by Balaeus her Book of Epigrams Elegy upon her Husband's death and other Verses of various kind and subject besides which she is said to have wrought many things both in Prose and Verse Cleobule or Cleobuline the Daughter of Cleobulus Prince of Lindus she is particularly noted for her faculty in Aenigmatical Sentences or Riddles which she uttered or composed for the most part in Greec Verse Corinna a Theban Poetess who wrote 5 Books of Epigrams and is said to have been 5 times Victress over Pindarus she was the Daughter of Archelodorus and Procratia and the Disciple of Myrthis and is mentioned by Propertius lib. 2. Besides her there were two others of the same Name both fam'd for Poetry also namely Corinna the Thespian much extoll'ed by Antient writers especially by Statius and Corinna the Roman Lady who flourishing in the time of Augustus is highly celebrated by Ovid who had a particucular friendship and admiration for her Cornificia a Roman Epigrammatic Poetesse Sister to Cornificius D. Damophila the Cousen-German Associate and Emâ—latrix of Sappho and Wife of Damophilus the Philosopher she is said to have writ a Poem of Diana besides other Poems of an Amoumorous subject and is mentioned by Theophilus in his Life of Apollonius Thyaneus Debora a great Prophess in Israel of whom such was her repute at that time that though a Wife viz. of Lapidoth she was Judge or Supream Governess her divine Hymn or Song upon the Deliverance of the Israelites from Jabin K. of the Gananites shews her to have been divinly inspir'd with a Poetic no less then Prophetic Spirit E. Erinna a Poetess of Teos who is said to have writ a Poem in the Doric Dialect consisting of 300 Verses besides Epigrams though deceasing in the 19 th year of her age which was under the Reign of Dion Tyrant of Syracuse Eucheria an unknown Poetess except by a Fragment of 32 Latin Verses in Gillius his forementioned Collection of Epigrams and old Poems Eâ—docia see Athenais H. Hannah the Wife of Elkanah and Mother of the great Jewish Prophet Samuel for the joy of whose Birth her divine Muse brake forth into a Hymn of thanksgiving Hedyle a Samian or as some say Athenian Poetess of whom there are remember'd two Poems her Scylla our of which Athenaeus quotes several Verses and the Loves of Glaucus which gift of Poetry as she seems to have receiv'd from a Poetess her Mother viz. Mâ—schine noted for Iambic Poetry so to have bequeathed to a Poet her Son no less famous for Epigram Helena Flavia the Daughter of Coil King of Brittain and by him the Mother of the Emperor Constantine the Great among the rest of her works mentioned by Balaeus is her Book of Greec Verses she is said to have been